ROV services provider M2 Subsea has secured contracts worth more than £10 million over the past six months. The company, which has bases in Aberdeen, UK and Houston, Texas, said it has successfully conducted more than ten projects across the oil and gas and renewable markets. M2 Subsea’s fleet of RO
The first project for XblocPlus has just been awarded, and as part of this contract, XblocPlus will be used as reinforcement of the 32 km long Afsluitdijk. For this first work with XblocPlus, the blocks will be referred to as ‘Levvel blocs’, named after the Levvel consortium which comprises Van Oord
Norway’s Kongsberg Group is set to buy Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine for half a billion British pounds, or around $661,4 million.
UK-based MAATS Tech has been awarded a contract to supply a deck spread for Nexans’ newbuild cable lay vessel the ‘Nexans Aurora’ scheduled for delivery in Q2 2021. The main item is a 10,000te cable carousel, which will be a concentric ‘carousel in a carousel’ design and therefore able to process tw
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has reached an agreement with The Underwater Centre (TUC) in Fort William, Scotland, to conduct a verification test of a prototype autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) equipped with a robot arm for subsea pipeline inspection. The test is scheduled to be conducted in October
Fairfield Geotechnologies has reached an agreement with an undisclosed geophysical services company for the purchase of an additional 3000 Z100 nodes, its second sizeable purchase in a year. Fairfield Geotechnologies has designed the Z100 nodal system to allow safe and easy 4C data acquisition in tr
The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority recently acquired a Damen DOP250 dredge pump, together with the cutter unit, to perform maintenance dredging of the drainage channels in British Guyana. The coast line of British Guyana is below sea level. With a rising sea level due to climate change,
Royal IHC said in its latest blog post that they have been working with the Technical University of Delft to develop new CFD (computational fluid dynamics) techniques to simulate different types of dragheads for the trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs). “This enables us to gain a detailed insigh
Cohort’s Systems Engineering & Assessment (SEA) has completed final trials of its Krait defence anti-submarine warfare system’s extended 150 meter ultra-thin towed array. The new evolution of KraitArray uses multi-module assembly philosophy and is now established inservice for use with ASV, AUV and
Ezion and TSC Group have entered into a joint venture agreement with the aim to “to become the world’s largest owner and operator of Liftboats.”
NKT has been awarded a contract by Ørsted to supply offshore export cable system for the Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm in the UK. The contract, worth over EUR 145 million, will see NKT supply more than 190 kilometers of 220 kV high-voltage AC XLPE for the Hornsea 2 wind farm which has a capacity of [
C-Kore Systems has secured a contract with A/S Norske Shell for the deployment of its testing tools on Draugen field in Norway. The agreement, planned to begin in the fall of 2018, includes the delivery of C-Kore subsea tools to test the insulation resistance and continuity of electrical lines under
The trailer suction hopper dredger (TSHD) DC Brugge was delivered last week to Scheepswerf Gebr. Kooiman B.V. in Zwijndrecht. According to the Kooiman’s latest announcement, the new TSHD is the result of close cooperation between Group de Cloedt and Kooiman Marine Group. The vessel, with a hopper vo
C-Kore Systems has secured a contract with Shell for a deployment in the fall of 2018 on its Draugen field in Norway.
